The TechCrunch headline says Yahoo: Poor, Alone and Sad and the text ends with "Yang must go." Jim Goldman echoes that at CNBC in Yahoo's Yang Needs to Go, saying: "Jerry Yang has made a mockery of the vaunted company he helped create." Om Malik's headline at GigaOM is: Yahoo's Yang Has No Regrets — He Should, and he says Yang has "chosen to reign over what has become a listless battleship without ammunition. Yang is a conscientious person, but he might be deluding himself." At CNet, Dan Farber observed: "Yang's job is to sell that vision inside and especially outside of Yahoo. The problem is Yang can't sell." The Industry Standard observed: Investors, observers lose confidence in Jerry Yang.
This is what's called "a bad press".
All Jerry Yang did was answer questions on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
Was he really that bad? Watch the 42-minute video here.
Yang's general message appeared to be that he had never really been against the Microsoft takeover (really???), they'd tried hard to sell Ballmer the company, but would Microsoft please come back and buy Yahoo now.
Still, I guess it's hard to argue that Yahoo was worth a lot more than Microsoft was willing to pay now that it's actually worth a lot less…..
